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True. And using five Sporting Directors to spy on each other and report back to the owners is a typical divide and rule tactic. 5 Sporting Directors, 8 managers, 55 players....Blueco model One Step Beyond...

The problem is not just status and lack of European Football. If you look at Guardiola’s success at Manchester City as an example of a manager receiving the players he wanted, contrasting it with situations where coaches are told to work only with what they are given. Without addressing these factors, Chelsea risk narrowing their pool of willing elite candidates. Elite managers do not look favourably on someone pulling their strings.

The job at Stamford Bridge is not nearly as tempting as it used to be, and has pretty much lost its appeal to the very top coaches. The squad isn’t ready to compete at the top, and those coaches won’t get the control they want to change that.

Newcastle surely only saying theyre intersted as a joke

Only if it benefits them. Fans are an inconvenient necessity to them.

You can't trust anything they do now, they've lost any integrity they might have had

Liverpool and Man City must be shitting themselves facing the mighty Chelsea our club has been bought with loans by club abusers

Bet the fat Etonian got a kick back as well

Chelsea have always been very successful in terms of player sales, which have generated far more money for the club than ticket sales over the last decade. ''The 22 Holdco business model is similar to that of a hedge fund in that signing young players on long-term contracts can be very profitable and reduces the chances of players leaving on a Bosman deal for no fee. '' Now that model is pretty well fucked, and everything is threatened, even attracting a new high-profile manager, without Champions League football.

Yeah from fighting for their lives to confidence, and now maybe reversed positions West Ham 22 Holdco 😉

Utd players have been praising Carrick, saying he has learned from Ferguson, and is bringing that Ferguson magic to training and tactics Cant imagine any of our lot said that about Liam 🤪- last time we heard anything like that was when they praised Tuchel

Not A Project CFC, the protest group, are planning two further protests. The first will take place on the steps of Wembley Way before the FA Cup final against Manchester City. A second protest to take place inside Stamford Bridge, where fans are asked to turn their backs in the 22nd minute of the final home game vs Sp*rs

But there has to be a will to do it. ie are the venture capitalists really that interested in team success ? If not the rot from the top will remain, no matter what Directors of football they appoint, puppets that are constrained by AI and cashflows. PL and Championship are littered with billionaire owners quite content to drive at 50 in the middle lane as long as they add to their fortunes. If they have the will for success, like the custodians of Liverpool, Utd, Citeh, where the penny finally dropped that you need to get a good manager in, trust him, and give him the autonomy to get on with it - that would be a start

The 'chancers' wouldnt be there under a regime that prioritised silverware over saddling the club with their borrowing. They could spend another 1.5 billion on players, get a shit manager in that the players dont respect, continuing outsourcing the medical operation - and ca plus ca change - which is exactly what I expect to happen

All of this is on the owners